1、Lesson 4 The Spring CityInstructional AnalysisAnalysis of Teaching ContentThis unit focus on weather and activities related to the spring season.Students will learn to report on the weather, and discuss different topics and activities that relate to spring. Lesson 4 teaches students how to describe

2、the spring in their hometown.Analysis of the StudentsThe students of Grade Eight have mastered certain vocabularies. Through the last three lessons, they can talk about spring weather, activities, temperature, etc. But they don t know how to describe their hometown in a proper way. They are interest

3、ed in different kinds of activities in class like interviews and competitions.Teaching AimsKnowledge Objects. To learn how to describe the spring in their hometown in a proper way. To learn new vocabularies: nearly, plenty. To learn new phrases: long for/feel like / all year round/plenty of /because

4、 of by reading and listening to the text.Ability ObjectsTo develop the students abilities of readingMoral Objects To cu ltivate the students interests of learning English. To arouse students to love their hometownLearning StrategyIndividual learning 、 group-work and task-based learningTeaching Impor

5、tant and Difficult PointsTeaching Important Point:To learn to how to describe the spring in their hometown in a proper way.Teaching Difficult Point:To ask students to describe the spring in their hometown using what they ve learned in this lesson.Teaching Aids ： Multi-media, tape recorder ；Teaching

6、Procedures教學(xué)過程Teaching Procedures教師活動Teacher s Activities學(xué)生活動 .Students Activities設(shè)計意圖PurposeStepI:Pre-readingWarming-up (1 )Play the song in Lesson 3 and let the students sing the song together.At the beginningofthe class, say “hello ” to students.Say hello to the teacher.Sing the song with the vid

7、eo.1.Reviewthesong in Lesson 3.2. Get ready for the next step.Step II:Lead-in (6)Ask students what s the song about and ask them to talk about spring.Use brainstorming to help students focus onthetopicspring .Ask students to watch thevideofromXiaoHeicarefullyandanswer thequestions.1、Express their ow

8、n ideas about spring likeweather,temperature, colours, activities etc.2、Watch the video and answer the questions?“What does Xiaohei like to do in spring? What s the weather like in Hei Longjiang in spring?What does “l(fā)ong for mean?Help students remember what they ve known about sping actively by usin

9、g brainstorm.Lead into thenewlessonandgettheclasstoknow about some of the new words in a natural way.Step m : While reading (12)Ask students read the e-mail from Xiao Kun quickly and answer two questions.Check the answers.Ask the students to read the passage again andfinishthreequestions. Then lead

10、the students to get some reading tips.Encourage students to read the text again and guess the meaning of the new words and phrases.Help students to learn about the compound words first,then let themguess the meaning of more compound words.Read thetextcarefully and answer the questions.Try to summari

11、ze some reading tips.Guess the meaning of the new words and phrases in the text. Learn about the compound words.Train students the abilityofreading.Learn how to describe the spring in a certain city.Letthestudents learn compound words in a efficient way.Step IV: Readforknowledge (6 ).Ask students to

12、 read the text aloud and find the phrase on the screen. Ask the students to learn the important phrases by heart. Explain the problems they can t understand.Letthe studentsfinish Let s do it. Part3.Read the text aloud and find the phrases in the text.Learn the new phrases by heart.Finishtheexercises

13、.Train students ability of Individual and cooperative learning. .Step V Post reading ExtensionLet students finish “Let s do it ”Part .2.Listen to the tape carefully and match the names with the sentencesPlay the tape again and check the answerPlay a short video about the beautiful spring in Tangshan

14、.Listen carefully and finish the task.Watch the short video carefully and enjoy the beautiful spring of Tangshan.Let thestudents learn more about the spring in other cities.Trainstudents listening ability.3.Arouse students love to their own hometown.Step VI: (4)The spring in my hometownLet students

15、write a short passage about the spring in Tangshan.Ask several students to share their articles with the class.Let students think about “What can we do to make our hometown a better place.”Write the article about the spring in Tangshan.Share their articles in class.Talk about What they can do to mak

16、e our hometown a beautiful place.Train studentstheabilityofspeakingandwriting.Arousestudents love totheirhometown.StepW:Summary2 )Ask students to summary what they ve learned in class.Make a short speech about the meaning of spring.Summarize what they have learned in this lesson by themselves.Cultivate students good habits of summarizing after learning something.Make students workhardfortheirown future.Step W : Homework (1 )Let students make a poster about how to make our hometown a better place and prepare to show it to cla